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Fallbrook Artists
This picturesque art town is surrounded by winding roads, green space, parks, and an active art colony making Fallbrook an ideal setting for creative individuals to relax, renew, and excel. This has led to an influx of highly acclaimed artists who live, work , or show in Fallbrook, many with national reputations. Check back each month for a new artist profile.
Creative Juices Keep Flowing
Over the years, Karen Langer Baker has worked
at a number of jobs. The Fallbrook resident was a
teacher, award-winning artist, real estate agent,
child birth educator and hypnotherapist. Although
the jobs were all very different they were connected
by a common theme -- in each, Langer Baker drew
from her reservoir of creativity to make a difference.
She used her creativity to help market properties
while a real estate agent and reach out to gifted
children as well as those with learning disabilities as
a teacher. “I don’t spend 100 percent of my time in
art,” she explained. “I’m a born teacher.” Although
traditional art – drawing, painting and sculpture -- is
her first love, this active 72-year-old also dabbles in
the healing arts. Born into a medical family, she
believes she was put on this earth to help people
heal themselves. She is a former director of the
Brandon Gallery and an active member of the only
artists’ co-op in Southern California. Every month
she oversees exhibits in Brandon’s Et Cetera
Gallery. Langer Baker also is president of the
Fallbrook Art Association, whose 300 members help
support the arts with scholarships to deserving
students and bring arts to elementary school
students at military bases. Examples of her work
can be seen at Brandon Gallery, Brothers Bistro,
the Professional Office Building in Fallbrook and the
Fallbrook Area Visitors Bureau where she is
featured artist of the month. A self-portrait taken
from her driver’s license photo hangs in the bureau
office that she put together with scraps and bits of
paper from magazines. “I’m smiling because I got
100 percent on my driver’s test,” she says.
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